Late rain a silver lining for growers

By Stephanie Sinclair
Updated September 27 2018 - 12:40pm, first published December 30 2017 - 7:00am
Growers in the Esperance region are on track for a record breaking harvest and have yielded the best results of all port zones across the grainbelt this season. Sisters Zoe (left) and Honni Mansell, with Honni's son Thomas were all smiles in early November as the family prepared to harvest this Mace crop at Beaumont.
Growers in the Esperance region are on track for a record breaking harvest and have yielded the best results of all port zones across the grainbelt this season. Sisters Zoe (left) and Honni Mansell, with Honni's son Thomas were all smiles in early November as the family prepared to harvest this Mace crop at Beaumont.

IT has been a rollercoaster year for many farmers across the WA grainbelt with plenty of promise at the outset that quickly faded following one of the driest starts to the growing season in recent memory.

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